Thomas Bernhard

Woodcutters is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, also published in 1985 in another English translation under the title Cutting Timber: An Irritation, and originally published in German in 1984. Second in a trilogy covering the Arts, this one relates to the theatre and created quite an uproar in Austria, where it was banned …

A collection of personal writings, originally penned in 1980, recounts farces that developed around literary awards received by the late author, from his ungracious participation in ceremonies to the improper ways he spent prizes.